Abraham Lincoln og Gettysburg Address

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln became the United States 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a martyr and a national hero for his wartime leadership and for his efforts to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

At Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was attacked on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.

And what do you know about the United States of America at that time?

It was in time of the where civil war was raging. One side wanted to liberate the slaves; the other side wanted to keep them enslaved. The civil war started on 12 April 1861 and the war ended on 9 April 1865.

The Gettysburg Adress by “Abraham Lincoln”

A Speech on the Occasion of the Dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863

This speech was given to the United States as reminder that the country was formed to gain freedom and unity, and because they were in civil war, they could not be totally free, because a divided country is not a country at all. What made this speech popular was the fact that he changed small bits of words, depending on who he was talking to.